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|I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

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|I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

|I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine keeper.

|The phrase "true vine" is a #2 attributive position (article-noun-article-adjective), which connects "true" and "vine" but makes the adjective (true) a mild afterthought. A #1 gives equal balance to adjective and noun (article-adjective-noun), while a #3 mildly de-emphasizes the noun (noun-article-adjective). The effect is kind of like this: "I am the vine...the true one." So He is telling us that the vine is true (in case we were wondering), but what He wants us to focus on thinking about is the vine itself, not the "true" part.

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|Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

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|Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

|He removes every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and he prunes every branch that does bear fruit, so that it might bear more fruit.

|The emphasis in the first two clauses is on "every branch." No branch, no person, escapes this "removal or pruning" process.

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|Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

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|Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

|You are already clean through the teaching which I have spoken to you.

|"Teaching" is logos. "Word" is the traditional translation of this, but "teaching" is probably more accurate for modern audiences.

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|Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

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|Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

|Stay in Me, and I will stay in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it stays on the vine, neither can you unless you stay in Me.

|"Stay in me" is in the imperative, with the verb supplied in the first half, and implied in the second half. Usually, the verb in the first half is simply paralleled into the second half, which would normally mean that the first half ("stay in me") and the second half ("I stay in you") would both be commands. The problem is that the imperative has no first person (because you can't "command" yourself to do something). In a case like this, the second half is understood to relate the intention of the person speaking (I WILL do this). Strictly speaking, this is NOT a conditional ("if you stay in me, then I will stay in you"), but a statement of intent ("stay in me because I intend to stay in you"). This is not a promise that He will stay in us no matter what we do, but is a REASON for us to stay in Him (because He intends to stay in us).

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|I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

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|I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

|I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever stays in Me, and I in him, will bear a lot of fruit, because separated from Me, you can do nothing.

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|If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

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|If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

|If anyone does not stay in Me, he is thrown away like a branch and dries up. Then they gather the dried branches and throw them into the fire where they are burned up.

|There are a lot of implied and actual pronouns in the second sentence, which can lead to confusion in English, so I transfered "dried branches" from the first sentence for clarity. The KJV does the same thing, attempting to clear up the pronoun confusion by inserting "men" in the second sentence (neither anthropos nor aner appear in the text here).

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|If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

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|If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

|If you stay in Me, and these teachings of mine stay in you, then whatever you ask shall be done to you.

|"Teachings" here is ῥῆμα, which emphasizes what Jesus is saying NOW, as opposed to the entirety of everything He has said (logos). By using ῥῆμα instead of logos, the point is that as we learn the many teachings of Jesus, we need to store them away, one by one, in our hearts. Each time He speaks a fresh thing to us, particularly those things which really jump out and seem to apply to what we are going through right now, we need be extra sure that we make that particular teaching (the thing He is saying to us right now) a part of who we are.

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|Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

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|Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

|This is how my Father is glorified, when you bear a lot of fruit. Then you demonstrate that you are My disciples.

|The KJV could leave the impression that this is HOW you become His disciples, but γίνομαι in the middle voice is not about origins or creations, but more about appearances: this is how you "prove/show/demonstrate/make evident/make it clear" that you are my disciples.

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|As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

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|As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

|In the same way that the Father loved Me, I loved you. Now live in My love.

|The word translated "live" is the same one translated "stay" in previous verses. In the previous verses the emphasis was more of "don't leave," where here it is more "make it a regular part of your everyday life"; thus the change in translation from "stay" to "live."

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|If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

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|If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

|If you follow My directives, you shall live in My love, in the same way that I have followed my Father's directives, and I live in His love.

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|These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

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|These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

|I have spoken these things to you so that my joy might be in you, and so that you joy might fill you up.

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|This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

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|This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

|This is the reason for my directive, so that you love each other, in the same way that I loved you.'

|This is not actually a restating of the same directive from 13:34, but is a purpose clause explaining that the reason for giving that command back in 13:34 (and every command) is so that we actually WILL love each other. The reason for God's commands is NOT to steal our fun or make our lives boring and miserable, but so that in the end, we will finally learn how to love each other.

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|Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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|Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

|No one has greater love than this: when someone lays down his life for his friends.

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|Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

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|Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

|You are my friends, if you do whatever I direct you to do.

|The unspoken implied follow up to this is "and so, I go to lay down my life for you." Jesus foretold that He was about to die for all of us a lot of times in a lot of different ways.

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|Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

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|Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

|From now on I do not call you servants, because the servant does not know what his lord is doing. On the contrary, I have called you friends, because everything that I heard from my Father I thoroughly explained to you.

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|Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

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|Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

|You did not choose me, but I chose you, and established you so that you can go out and bear fruit that will last. That way, whatever you ask the Father in my name, He would give it to you.

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|These things I command you, that ye love one another.

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|These things I command you, that ye love one another.

|These are the directions I give you so that you love one another.

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|If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

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|If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

|If the world hates you, know that it hated Me first.

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||If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

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||If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

|If you were of the world, the world would love its own. However, since you are not of the world, because I chose you out of the world, the world hates you.

|The word for love here is "phileo," meaning a deep, emotional feeling. The world might "feel" love, but that does not automatically mean the world will DO love.

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|Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

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|Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

|Remember the teaching that I told you: The servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted Me, they shall also persecute you. If they followed My teaching, they shall follow yours as well.

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|But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

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|But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

|They will treat you like this because you follow My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.

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|If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.

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|If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.

|I I did not come and speak to them, they would not have visible sin, but now they have no way to hide their sin.

|The implication here is that Jesus exposed, for all to see, the full extent and breadth of their sin. So now they can neither hide it nor claim ignorance.

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|He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

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|He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

|The one hating me, hates my Father also.

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|If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

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|If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

|If I had not done miracles among them which no one else has ever done, they would not have visible sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

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|But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

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|But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

|Additionally, it was so that the word written in their law, 'They hated me for no reason,' was fulfilled,

|From Psalm 69:4. "Those who hate me for no reason are more than the hairs of my head; they who would destroy me are mighty, my lying enemies. Then I restored what I did not take away."

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|But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

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|But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

|But when the Helper, the Spirit of Truth who speaks for the Father, whom I shall send to you from the Father, arrives, He will give testimony concerning me.

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|And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

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|And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

|And you will also give eye-witness testimony, because you have been with me from the beginning.

|The "eye-witness" part is implied by the verb, as this was a legal term used of those who were giving an eye-witness testimony of what they had seen personally.

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